John Street

A model daughter, She became a model bride.

The marriage of the youthful couple, for the bride was not yet twenty years old, took place in John Street, New York, the ceremony being performed by Dr. Provost, the Episcopalian Bishop of New York.

William Seton carried his young wife to his father's house and into her new family.

Elizabeth Seton came as an angel of comfort and joy.

His service as first health officer of the port of New York and his sympathetic and unceasing labors for the sick in the quarantine station on Staten Island can never be forgotten.

Stirring times were those in which little Elizabeth Bailey played down by the Battery, where the citizens strolled to watch the ships swing up the harbor, or trudged to school with the little misses of the better class, or later on from the heights of Craigdon, her father-in-law's country house on the neck of land that is now 43rd Street between 11th Avenue and the Hudson, looked down on that beautiful river and watched the ships riding at anchor.

She was only two years old when King George's redcoats marched into the city, which they held from 1776 to 1783.

The din of war sounded around her cradle, and if she slumbered peacefully while Howe and Washington were locked in the death struggle of Long Island, others feared and trembled for her.

With thousands of her fellow citizens, Elizabeth Bailey, then in her fifteenth year, witnessed the inauguration in New York of George Washington as President of the United States.

It was the thirtieth of April, 1789.

The inauguration took place at Federal Hall on the corner of Wall and Broad Streets.

It was noon, and the great Virginian, accompanied by Chancellor Livingston, Adams, Hamilton, Knox, Steuben, and St. Clair, stepped forth on the balcony.

And the drinks are pretty good.

Yeah, it's overpriced, but what are you going to do? The other holdout, which is lesser known, but still, again, a big part of the financial district culture is 135 John Street.

And 135 John Street has that Rudy DeHerrick clock sculpture on it.

And the reason why that happened was, again, friend of the show, the Roth family.

So Melvin Kaufman bought and developed that corner of Water Street.

And so, uh, newly released records show asbestos continues to be detected months after September 11th.

Okay? So they were measuring, you know, in the months after, right? So approximately 10 months after the attack, asbestos was still detected at 15 John Street.

So 10 months later it was still detected.

So if you were hanging around New York after this, you were literally breathing in asbestos, among other things, for months after.

Approximately 10 months after the attack, asbestos was still detected.

Right, I said that already.

15 John Street is roughly half a mile from the World Trade Center site.

Records from 130 Liberty Street, the former Dutch Bank building, showed contamination between September '01 and April '02.